Discipline and self control Quote by Augustus William Hare

“Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.” quote by Augustus William Hare — Download Open image

“Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.”

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Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,…

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Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start…

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There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

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Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

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The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the…

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Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work…

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